Biography & autobiography

Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself

by Julie Klam

In her bestselling memoir You Had Me at Woof, Julie Klam shared the secrets of happiness she learned as an occasionally frazzled but always devoted owner of Boston terriers. Now, with the same enchanting humor...

Socrates: A Man for Our Times

by Paul Johnson

A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy

Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very...

From Paris to Bergen-Belsen

by Jacques Saurel

Born in 1933, Jacques Saurel might well have known the fate of so many children of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland between the wars: Auschwitz and the gas chamber. He owed it to his father that he initially...

HOLDING ON - "I Sued the Mafia and Lived to Tell About It":: The Story of Sundance Dane and Kerri James

by Doug Dane Fenske

Synopsis: Apparently you can sue the mafia and live to tell about it. In his dynamic autobiography, Doug Dane explains the extraordinary circumstances that led to this conflict when his life was threatened,...

The 11.11 Code: Secrets of the Convent

by Hilary Carter

Have you ever looked at the clock and been surprised at how often it says 11.11 or 2.22 or 3.33? The 11:11 Code tells the story of yoga teacher Hilary Carter, who was brave enough to follow the coincidences...

Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross

by Thomas Kunkel

These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious...

Edith Wharton

by Hermione Lee

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.

Delving into heretofore...

My Dog Skip

by Willie Morris

Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).

In 1943...

Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods

by John Strege

Record-breaking media sensation Tiger Woods has moved beyond the fairway to take the world by storm. After becoming the first golfer in history to win three straight U.S. Amateur titles, his win at the 1997...

A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace

by Ralph Branca & David Ritz

A first-hand account of the golden era of baseball from Jackie Robinson’s friend, former teammate and featured player in the 2013 biopic "42."

Ralph Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted...

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

by Priscilla Warner

Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety...

Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs

by Levi Johnston

Best known as Bristol Palin’s baby daddy and Sarah Palin’s favorite whipping boy, Levi Johnston sets out to clear his name and—with any luck—end his run as Alaska’s most hated man. 

Promising hockey...

Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life

by Carrie White

I was living a hairdresser’s dream. I was making my mark in this all-male field. My appointment book was filled with more and more celebrities. And I was becoming competition for my heroes . . .

Behind the...

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

by Hunter S. Thompson

Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking -- in his journalism, in his life, and under the law -- changed the shape of American letters, and the face of American...

Let the Trumpet Sound

by Stephen B. Oates

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America's history....

Drama: An Actor's Education

by John Lithgow

In this riveting and surprising personal history, John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis, and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye and...

My Fathers' Houses

by Steven V. Roberts

From Steven V. Roberts comes My Fathers' Houses, a memoir of growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, an immigrant community in the shadow of the Statue if Liberty, and the story of how his father and his grandfather's...

The Captain is Out to Lunch

by Charles Bukowski

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably...

Accidentally on Purpose

by Mary F. Pols

At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect...

The Cell Game

by Alex Prud'Homme

"It began with a promising cancer drug, the brainchild of a gifted researcher, and grew into an insider trading scandal that ensnared one of America's most successful women. The story of ImClone Systems and...